Saturday, April 21, 2012

Rocco's Pizza Plus (1664 W. 1st Ave, Grandview Heights)

Hype: This place just opened last week so we thought we'd give it a go. It has Pizza Plus attached to the name and the others (Bexley and Gahanna) are pretty good.

Scene: It is kinda sterile in there. Too big, golf on the TV, and just not right. We were not excited by the age of the workers, which I would average at about 19. While we have had many good pies made by young people, these were not those kind of young people. They were clean cut; not creepy, not Juggalos. So this was a bad sign.

THE PIE:

Crust- Thick, bready, a little doughy, and boring.Sauce- Not heavily applied. It lacked the spice of other Pizza Plus locations.Cheese- Pretty good, but again not stellar. It was really thick in the center and light as we moved towards the edges.Peps- Very boring. Tasteless. They do offer a "Spicey Pep" option, which we also tried and these tasted like real peps. Our advice is to just drop the regular pepperoni option and call the spicey ones the regular. We'll just act like this never happened.

Overall: Certainly the weakest link in the Pizza Plus Chain. Barely 3-5 pies. We had leftover slices for roommates with low standards.

Titans of Pizza

Adriatico's of Columbus: we cannot slay this pie!Plaza Pizza of Newark:a classic thin cruster made by a salt-of-the-earth family. Tears just thinking about it.Borgata Pizza Cafe:Thin crust pizza unlike the others in Columbus. A slice above the rest!!!